Churn-dasher.



H. C. GROSS.

CH'URN DASHER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.25,'1911.

990,546, Patented A111125, 1911.

WITNEASSES: IN VENTOR.

HENRY C. GROSS, 0F ST. CHARLES, MISSOURI, ASSIGOR OF- ONE-HALF TO FRED KIBSCHNER, 0F ST. CHARLES, MISSOURI.

4 CHURN-DASHER.

Specication of Letters Patent.

yPatented Apr. 25, 1911.

Application led January 25, 1911. Serial No. 604,638.

To all whom it may concern: y

Be it known that I, HENRY C. GRoss, citizen'of the United States, residing at St. Charles, in the county of St'Chai-les and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Churn-Dashers, of. which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.`

My invention has relation to improvements indashers for churns and the like; and it consists in the novel details of construction more fully set forth in the specifcation and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 'l is a vertical middle section taken through the receptacle or container of a churn showing my inven-v tion applied thereto; Fig. Q'is a cross-section on the line 2-2 degree of agitation with a view of extracting the butter constituent from the cream in a minimum amount of time; onewhich shall be'simple, cheap, durable, and one-possessing further and other advantages-better apparent from a detailed description of the invention, which is as follows Referring to the drawings, C represents a cream container or receptacle, provided with a preferably wooden cover 1, to which is secured a bottom sheet of metal stamped in such a way as to form an outer flange a to' engage the inner `wall of thecontainer, and a central hollow portion or socket lb Serving `as a bearing for the reciprocating staff or handle 2 of the dasher. The handle terminates in a bottom expanded port-ion or head 2 about which are distributed circularly two independent series of blades 3, 3 (there may be two yor more suchseries if desirable, two being illustrated in the present example), the blades being `substantially .triangular in outline'with sides converging toward the axis of the handle. Each blade is provided with a stem 4 which is received by a socket in the head 2', or they may be attached in any other suitable mechanical manner. The opposite faces of the blades are of Fig.-1; Fig. 3 is a de` I tached plan view of. one of theblades; and

provided with parallel grooves or depressions d, which run radially outward from the axis of the handle As shown in Figs. l and 4, the blades of the respective series are disposed in planes erpendicular to the plane in which the axis ofl the handle lies, but are themselves inclined to such axis.A -One series 3 dips in one direction, and the other series 3 dips in the opposite direction, one blade 3 overlap,- 'ping the next blade 3 (and vice versa) the 'blades of the respective series being disposed in staggered relation, leaving passage-ways h between the face of a blade of one series and the edge of va blade of the next series. Moreover (Figs. l, 4) the lower edges e of the bottomseries of blades 3 are disposed substantially in the planes of the faces m of the bades of the adjacent upper series, and the upper edges e of the upper series lie in the planes of the faces m of the blades o f the lower series (Fig. 4). The blades 3 are in addition disposed at right angles to the blades 3.

As the handle is reciprocated in its socket or bearing Z9, the dasher is worked up and down through the body of the cream in the container G. The cream is forced to pass through the passage-ways h, and over the grooved faces' of the blades, thus resulting in f thus overlapped (see left-hand arrows Fig.

4) and hence a maximum agitation of the cream is the result.

Having described my invention, what I claim is y l. A dasher comprising a member adapted to be reciprocated in a suitable receptacle or container, independent series of blades disposed thereon and set at an angle to the direction of such reciprocation, the blades of the respective series being disposed at an angle to` one another, the edges of the blades of one series being disposed substantially in the planes of the faces of the blades of the adjacent series.

2. A dasher comprising a member adapt ed to be reciprocated in 'a suitable container. independent series of substantiallyY triangular blades disposed thereon, and4 set at an angle to the direction of such reciproeation,l

the blades of tlie respective seriesb'eing disthe blades of one series being substantially in the planes of the faces of the blades of the adjacent series.

3. A dasher comprisinga handle terminating in tWo independent series of'blades having opposite triangular faces converging toward the aXisof the handle and disposed in planes substantially perpendicular to the plane in which said axis lies', but set at an angle to said aXis,'the faces being provided with grooves running substantially at right angles to the plane in Which the axis ofthe Ihandle lies, the blades oI"-one series being mounted substantially'at right angles to thoseof the adjacentseries, the bottom edges of, the blades of one series and the upper edges of the blades of the other series being disposed substantially'in the planes of one of the faces of the adj aeent blades, the blades EMIL j STAREK,

y VVINIFRED MCHALE.

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